The
report, which ranks 136 countries, determines
its findings across four primary areas including
economic participation and opportunity,
educational attainment, political empowerment
and health and survival, ranking the United
States 23 rd on the list for 2013,
HuffPost
reported.

Each country out of the 136 is
assigned a score between 1 representing total
gender equality and 0 depicting inequality, the
total score representing the percentage of the
gap that has been closed between women and men.
This year, the United States received a score of
0.7392, which is actually worse than the score
it received the year before when it was ranked
22 nd.

According
to the report, despite having a near-perfect
gender gap in terms of education, we have a
serious gender disparity when it comes to
politics, with women constituting only
18.3 per cent of the 113 th Congress.

So which
countries ranked above the United States? Not
surprisingly, Scandinavia (known for their
kick-ass policies on promoting gender equality)
scored extremely high yet again with the top 10
as follows:

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